The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-06-30
VOL. 3O.--NO 90

small hamlet, one woman and two
children were killed, having taken
shelter in an old house on which tree
fell, crushing them. In the track of
this tornado nothing was left.
CRUSHED To DEATH.
CINCINNATI, June -2S.-The Times
Stars Portsmouth Ohio special says
that an excavation for a pile for the
South Shore railroad bridge, three
miles from that city, cayed in this
crushing three men to death.
KILLED BY HER SWEETHEART.
LOUISVILLE, June 2T.-At IL O'Clock
last night Miss Sarah E. AldTidge, a
pretty young lady nineteen years of
age, received a pistol shot in the head
from which she died. For about a
year past Miss Aldridge has been re
ceiving attentions from George Jetel,
p years old. Last night he left
his home in Louisville and called upon
his sweetheart. Between ten and elev-
en- O'Clock the parents of Miss Aldridge
were awakened by pistol shot IN the
paFlor. They rushed TO the room and
found their daughter in Il Swoon on the
floor. with the blood pouring from a
bullet hole in her head. Jetel says he
was asleep, with his head in the lap of
the girl, when the deed occurred and
that she committed suicide. He is now
in jail.
FIGHT WITH HORSE THIEVES.
CHICAGO, Ill.,, June ga special
from Little Rock Arkansas says: A
fight was reported yesterday from the
Choctaw nation between a sheriff's
posse and a band of horse thieves in
which two of the latter were killed out
right and three wounded. The officers
escaped without serious injuries. The
posse has been chasing these thieves
for several days and when they were
finally overtaken they refused to sur
render and battle resulted. Three of
the gang escaped.
HULLING's AIURDEREES ARRESTED.
CLEVELAND. June 2S.-At an early
hour this morning the following mes
sage was received at the Central Police
Station;
ALPENA. Michigan, June %.
To Jacob Schmidt, Superintendent of Police:
Have got Morgan, Pat Haney and
waunded. Fought well. tSigned.l
j. L, DENTON, Deputy Sheriff.
CLEVELAND, June 2S.-Morgan,
Hanley and Harrington, the fur rob
beers who rescued McMinn, their leader
at Ravenna, Ohio, while he was being
brought here from Pittsburg by Capt
Hoehn and Detective Hulligan were
captured early this morning. The fight
was Il desperate one. Hulligan was so
badly injured that he died. Sixteen
thousand dollars reward was offered
for the capture of the gang.
The police all over the country were
requested to keep Il lookout for the
murderers. For the past month Captain
Hoehn has been at work in the locality
of Alpena. The police of this city had
received reliable information that the
murderers were in hiding i'll the woods
of North Michigan and that they had
made Alpena their headquarters. Cap
tain Hoehn visited Alpena. but found
to his sorrow that the criminals had
flown. Lynch was in Cleveland on
Saturday, and his description of the
Alpena gang tailed with that of the
mUrdereTs of Halligan. Yesterday he
telegraphed that the men had return
| ed to Alpena, and at o clock last night
he was wired to organize posse and
capture them. Detective Reeves also
received information that the desper-
ADDE'S were ut Alpena. and he and
Cain Hoehn left on the steamer City of
Detroit last night for Detroit
and from there their destlna-
ton is AlPena. From the lntor-
nation received by Detective Reeves
he was of the opinion that
the men we're stopping with sister of
the woman who lives in this city.
| Captain w. g. Hannon is positive that
the right men have been captured, and
! the necessary requlsltion papers VIII DE
secured at once. The Captain is al
most positive that one of the prisoners
| is not Hanley, but Mat Kennedy, alias
McMunn. 1t is his opinion that Han
| ley has cut loose from the gang, and
| that Kennedy and Morgan are travel
| ing together. The woman under whose
protection the murderers are said to
! have lived, is a sister of Mrs. Lowry,
wife of the noted Charley Lowry. An
officer was sent TO Columbus on the
| first train this morning after requisI-
| ton papers. The murierers of HalIi-
gan were indicted by the grand jury Of
| Portage County for murder in the first
| degree. Superintendent Schnitt sent
a telegram to Uoehn and Reeves at De-
| troit, and one to Sheriff Lynch at Al
pena to hold the prisoners at any cost.
NEW TRIAL GRANTED.
| CHICAGO, June 2S.-The Daily News
saws a rumor no less startling that that
the Supreme Court had decided to give
the condemned Anarchists "a new trial
was put into industrious circulation to-
| day. The intelligence was to the
effect that majority Of the judges
sitting on the Supreme Bench
had decided in favor of the points sub
mitted by Captain Black and
Leonard SWEET why the sentence pro
nounced by Judge Gary on the lay
market assassins should not be exc
cuted at least before another hearing
was allowed the condemned. The
origin of the rumor, so far as it could
be traced, appeared to be in the civil
courts in the County building, and early
this afternoon the rumor that the
Anarchists were indeed to have new
trial was common talk among the law.
yers. From these it was learned that
the reports stated the Supreme Court
! Judges had already dictated their opin
ion and thaS the declaration that thii
opinion was favorable to the Anarch
lists came from court officials who hat
access to the documents.
& NARROW ESCAPE.
NEW YORK, June 29.-This morning
fire broke out in the roofing paper
mandatory of Tobias & New OF
/ east Twentieth Street. Three alarmI
were sent out and an extra force o
firemen and engines were summoned
to the spot. Loss on stock and build
, ing estimated at about 10000, parti.
covered by $50 900. There were twent,
women engaged on the top floor of tn
building sorting rags when the fire oc
CURED, and they had narrow escap'
with their lives. They lowered them
| selves to the ground by means of ;
/ pulley line.
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